Mrs. Blatt

Welcome to our classroom community! I hope everyone had a fantastic and safe summer! Thank you to everyone who came to our September meetings and to the Meet the Staff event. It was wonderful to share our classroom with you and explore a variety of centres together.

We are off to a fabulous start this year in kindergarten! The students have been working hard on learning our classroom expectations and routines, turn taking skills, and have participated in a variety of interactive centres. We are having fun together making new school friends and singing a variety of songs such as our “hello” and “goodbye” song, which supports a sense of classroom belonging.

During our initial weeks together, we have been counting every day and learning about repeating patterns during our calendar time. We practiced identifying our calendar pattern (i.e. red, red, green, green) by creating different sound patterns with our bodies (i.e. clap, clap, knee pat, knee pat).

During the month of October, we will begin learning about the alphabet and each week we will learn about a new letter. First, we will learn to identify the letter and then learn how to properly print the letter. Next, we will talk about the sound that our new weekly letter makes and identify words that begin with that letter sound. So far, we have learned about the letter Aa and will continue with Mm and then Ss. A fun at home activity with your children is to practice these letters and sounds or play find a word/object that starts with “Aa, Mm or Ss.”

Finally, we had so much fun together on “Dot Day.” On this special day, we highlighted and celebrated our creativity and individuality through paint. Each student created their own artistic expression using dots and had a great time sharing their unique dot masterpiece! 

It has been a pleasure getting to know your children over this past month. I am very excited to work together to see where this strong learning partnership will take us. In our classroom, we love to reach for the stars and see where our imagination and learning will take us. Thank you for joining us on our learning journey this year; I look forward to watching your children grow and evolve as learners through play-based instruction!